chantry
"chantry" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“chantry” is uncommon English (frequency #53,437 among 43,570 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,437
- frequency rank, English
- 43,570
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - An endowment for the maintenance of a priest to sing a daily mass for the souls of specified people.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chantry |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #53,437 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “chantry” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
chantry is uncommon English at frequency #53,437 among 43,570 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for chantry in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English chaunterie, from Old French chanterie, from chanter (“to sing”). The correct English form is chantry, spelled C-H-A-N-T-R-Y.
Definition
- 1An endowment for the maintenance of a priest to sing a daily mass for the souls of specified people.
- 2A chapel set up for this purpose.
Etymology
From Middle English chaunterie, from Old French chanterie, from chanter (“to sing”).
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “chantry”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is C-H-A-N-T-R-Y - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.